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Climax Cars Announces Production Sports Racer, Priced at £92,000

Climax Sports Racer - Click above for high-res image gallery

Says Climax Cars of its Sports Racer, "We wanted to produce a radically different type of car that would be dramatically desirable as well as being an out-and-out enthusiast's car." Done and done. Consider us smitten with the classically British Jaguar-esque shape that looks absolutely brilliant in an appropriate shade of British Racing Green.

Packing up to 450 horsepower courtesy of a supercharged 4.6-liter Ford Racing V8, the Climax Sports Racer weighs just 1,999 pounds (907 kilograms). That's an almost unheard of power-to-weight ratio that easily bests that of nearly any other production car.

Fully-adjustable double-wishbone suspension at all four corners, ceramic brakes and a six-speed sequential Graziano GT ME1 gearbox ought to ensure suitable track-day performance cred while the expected £92,000 (about $150,000) asking price undercuts the Ariel Atom V8 by £30,000 and the Caparo T1 by over £60,000. Only 200 are planned and there's no word on if there will ever be U.S. availability.

Gallery: Climax Sports Racer